Kettlebells for sale.

[PatCNJ]

I know. This is not the place where members would be interested. A couple of days ago, I did go to the web site where I purchases the 'bells and posted a message to sell them. I have been getting a good response. Kettlebells are expensive and I am selling at a reasonable price. I have had the 'bells for about 8 years now. I even attended an RKC even several years back. For learning kettlebells it was interesting, I just didn't care for the overly macho russian military idea behind the weekend. I liked (past tense) the 'bells because they did enable me to workout at home and avoid the gym. They also allowed me to fit a workout into a busy schedule that included teaching full time, teaching karate classes at both a club at school and the kids class at my dojo, and review classes for my blackbelt. I feel they helped. I wonder how much more a routine like Tiger Moves would have helped. I would have also have avoided a medical condition that required surgery. I do have to say one item though: The prehab routine I used before surgery allowed a 41 year old to heal faster than a 20 year old. It was bodyweight (345 reps per workout) and powerflex routine. My doctor was intersted in how I healed completely. I did show him the material. He was interested though I am not sure how much he pursued more information. I have not touched a weight of any kind since last March. I do not miss them. The others at my dojo still refer to me as the physically strongest, though they have noticed a loss of bodyfat. My Sensei is happy that I have gone in this direction. He had made attempts to point me in this direction, I was just not ready to learn. I will miss the 'bells. They lined one wall in my living room. With the wood furniture and earthtone colors, they blended in nicely with the furniture. Most people thought they were part of the furniture. The room does seem a little empty without them but they needed to go. Let someone else make use of them. I have no need for them anymore.

[Greg Newton]

HI Pat,

I never forget that decades ago a Korean Martial Arts master told me that lifting weigts wasn't good for martial arts and that if I did, not to do any less than fifteen repetitions. Of course, he was talking aobut traditional barbell and dumbbell lifting not kettlebells.

Kettlebells might be effective for increasing athleticism, but there are safer ways to do the same thing. I rate k-bells with plyometrics. There is an inherent danger in ballistic movements. My opinion is that you develop your physical forces with your own body through calisthenics and self-resistance. Then you practice the skills related to your sport or activity.

But, you and I both know this. Once you've lifted weights for many a year, it gets into your blood. It is hard to let go of. Thank God for this site. If I had never encountered PYTP and John Peterson, I would have never have had the courage to go against the grain and do what I do now. I'll be practicing this stuff until my Maker calls me home and I'll be fit and healthy into my old age for it.

Greg Newton

[Andy62]

I worked out with kettlebells for about a year before I found Transformetrics. The thing that I liked about them was that they could give me a full cardio and resistance workout in my apartment in 20 minutes a day. I did not have any injury problems although I did have some bruising on my forearms until I mastered that release and catch move on some of the exercises. I did have one close call ,however, where it almost slipped out of my hand and could have taken out my TV set. The ballistic nature of them does have a speed developing aspect to it,but it also adds a high probability of injury. I can see why the Russian Millitary likes them because they are compact and inexpensive as for all intents and purposes the only way to add resistance is through increasing reps and speed. In the end I found them far inferior to Transformetrics and I was happy to return to the types of exercises that Charles Atlas had originally introduced me too as a preadolescent back in the early 1950s and that I had never completely given up even when experimenting with other types of exercises. I kept coming back to push ups. Actually kettlebells are exretmely limited as they are gravity reliant and you can only develop resistance in one direction. With Transformetrics you can create resistance of varying intensity in all directions at will. The thing that really impresses me about Transformetrics,however, are the physiological exercises that are included in it. They are thousands of years old and had been proven in yoga and the martial arts before being adopted to training people to adapt to the changing economic and social conditions in society in general by Alois P. Swoboda. There is something about the combining of muscle tension with internal projection and "inner concentration" that is both empowering and personally evolutionary.

"The exercises,as you know, are merely the vehicles by means of which the nervous system is aroused to greater activity through the intense application of the mind in producing resistance and rigidity of the muscles. In the process you are developing a highly evolved state of mind and body known as NERVE FORCE. Aim constantly to increase in your ability to exert your mind on your muscles".


Alois P. Swoboda

[John Peterson]

Hey Guys,


Don't forget that kettlebells make great door stoppers to keep you doors open.

---John Peterson